The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-13
Labor and Industrial Notes.

Philadelphia Record.
Nicksburg capitalists are about building a
$3.50 600 cotton mill. and another is TO be built
at Port Gibson, Miss.
In certain localities agriculturists speak of a
scarcity of farm labor because of its desire to
seek mechanical employment.
In the mining industry rather busy winter
is anticipated. but the wages question will still
be an open one IN most sections.
A great many workmen will leave the New
England and Middle States for the West and
South to pick up a few weeks work.
There are 935 600 tons of Scotch pig-iron
stored at Glasgow. The Victorian government
has just ordered 64 600 tons of steel rails.
The new steel pudding furnace in England
will make lis tons of mild steel per week with
the labor of three men working eight hours per
shift.
The annual consumption of wool per head in
Italy is II cents worth: in Germany 81; in
Spain, 50 "a; IN France, 1915, and in the United
States, 81. IS.
ark, n. j. is over So 600, 900 per year: of e well
ry. 81 800 900: of trunks, s. 600 900, and of cloth
ing. 81, 800, 000
Windmill factories are multiplying in the
West WIndmills are made to pump water and
do great deal of valuable work at much less
cost than boilers. engines and coal can do it.
Foreign and American capitalists are prepar-
ing to develop the extensive Warrior coal fields
of Alabama in order to supply the Gulf and
South Atlantic coasts with superior and cheap
fuel.
Decatur, Ala, promises to be great manu-
featuring centre 1t is to have a $500, 900 Union
depot. immense hotel, railroad shops to cost
$500, 600, and several large manufacturing con-
Germs.
The labor organizations of Baltimore have
asked that an ordinance be passed to compel
builders to attach bathrooms to all houses of
six over that may be hereafter built in
that city.
An automatic postal telegraph company pro-
poses to build copper wires from Boston to San
If i
will be able to successfully compete with the
Western Union.
The pump for the Cleveland water-works has
Just been completed at Warren. Mass, through
the cylinder of which tall can walk. 1t
is attracting the attention of machinists and
curious visitors
The New England hardware establishments
will run more steadily this winter than last; also
the paper-mills and the electric light establish
ments will turn out fully one-half more work
than IN the past season.
Along with manufacturing activity, the lun1-
Der manufacturers and dealers of the South
are having quite time A great deal of new
timber territory is being opened up, and
mills are being put together fast possible.
Tt is proposed to construct a canal from Du-
luth to a point the Red-river-of- the North,
and to extend steamboat navigation 1 600
miles westward from Lake Winnipeg. where it
is possible to develop wheat lands of 500, 900
square miles.
Liverpool is to be supplied by reservoir
from point sixty-eight miles distant. 1t will
cost SIS 000 000 An entire village is to be re-
moved to give the reservoir space, four and a
half miles long by one-half mile wide 1t will
be eighty feet deep
There is scarcely textile mill in New Eng
land that has not increased its capacity in mo-
tive power, floor space and machinery.
There Is tendency to a concentration of inter-
ests, and schemes are under consideration look
ing to the combination of small concerns now
competing.
A railroad company building line from Kan
sas City to Birmingham Ala, proposes to build
up big town and call it Amony, where railroad
shops will be built to employ ], 900 hands, and
put up, if the programme, which is complete
one shall be carried out
A new steam generator in England is arous-
ing great deal of interest because of its great
efficiency 1t is the pressure instead of
the draft principle. This obviates the expensive
tail chimneys and costly methods of firing now
in use. 1t is simply done by forcing an in
creased amount of air into the fuel
The effort to organize the New England shoe
their workmen has not met with cordial coop
Grafton everywhere At Lynn onethird of the
manufacturers remain out. The laSters in New
England have asked for 20 per cent advance.
The last-makers say trade is duller than ever
before known
Employers are quietly suggesting among
themselves the possibility of a reduction in the
which favor this possibility not very appar-
ent, and yet there is a feeling that organized
labor may find it more difficult to keep the high
standard next year than they have this year.
Much incompetent inferior labor has
been paid the highest wages this year, and
this evil has been borne with as much grace as
possible.